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The Australasian Book of Poultry. 
Points to be Deducted for Defects. 
Badly shaped comb 
5 
Bad head 
•• ,S 
Faulty ear-lobes 
5 
Too long or too short neck ... • ... 
5 
Deficiency of breast 
lO 
Badly shaped body... 
ID 
Wings badly carried ..." 
5 
Tail „ „ 
5 
Bad legs and feet 
5 
Want of Colour 
20 
,, „ Symmetry ... 
lO 
„ „ Size 
., ,, Condition ... 
ID 
lOO 
Disqu.\lifications. 
Any feathers on shanks or toes, crooked back, crooked breast, wry tail, white or yellow in ear-lobes, 
comb other than rose, or falling over to one side, or so large as to obstruct the sight, deformed beak, legs any 
other colour than yellow, any fraudulent dyeing, dressing, or trimming. 
To the kindness of Mr. H. Huntington Peck, the Hon. Sec. of the Victorian P-R.L.W. and O. Club 
we are enabled to publish the following Standard issued by the Club for judging Wyandottes : — 
Standard for Judging Silver-Laced Wvandottes. 
General Characteristics. 
COCK. 
Head. — General appearance resembling tliat of the Brahma of the fine-headed type, short and broad ; 
Beak, nicely curved ; Comb, rose, but narrow and low, surface evenly and uniformly studded with small 
points, spike behind much less than in Hamburgs, and rather curving down behind to match the curve of 
the head itself ; Wattles, medium ; Ear-lobes, well developed ; Neck, rather short, with a good sweep anti 
full flow of hackle on to the shoulders ; Body, general appearance short, broad, and very plump, shoulder 
and saddle both broad, and short concave sweep to the tail ; Breast, full and round, more than most 
varieties; //V/oA- ZJo A', deep through ; /r///^i, medium and closely folded ; Tail, medium, well spread, and 
well cariied up, but flowing, and in no degree squirrel fashion ; Legs and Feet, thighs short, fairly 
furnished with fluff; shanks, rather short and pretty .stout, toes well spread ; Carriage, very graceful, looking 
well balanced; Ai'crage Weight, cock 8)2lbs., cockerel yj'slbs. 
HEN. 
In general same as those of the cock, with usual sexual differences. Cushion and Tv'//^ generally rather 
more prominent in proportion ; Carriage, very neat and matronly ; Average Weight, hen ylbs., pullet 5lbs. 
Colour of Silver-Laced Wvandottes. 
In Both Sexes. — Beak, horn tipped with yellow, or yellow streaked with horn ; Comb, Face, Deaf-cars, 
and Wattles, bright red ; Eyes, bright bay ; Shanks, bright yellow. 
Colour of Cock. — Head, white ; Neck and Saddle Hackle, white with black stripes, coming to a 
sharp point ; Breast, very heavily laced, or may be described as black with a white centre to each feather, 
going off to a point or egg-end tip at the outer end. Back, silvery grey ; Wings, primaries black on inner 
and laced with white on outer edge ; secondaries, black on inner and a wide white lacing on outer web ; 
coverts, heavily laced, or so marked as to produce two well-defined laced bars across the wing ; wing-bows 
